Though I’ve knit a few rows on Clapotis and the mystery shawl and on the lace swatch, I don’t have anything of note to say, nor photographs to share regarding those projects. Oh, and while we’re briefly on the subject of knitting, if you’re in the Los Angeles area the middle of next month, you […]
Because of the wonderful Summer Mystery Reading Challenge I’ve found a new (to me) author to add to my list of favorites, Charlotte MacLeod. After finishing her delightful mystery, The Family Vault, I really should have moved on to another new mystery author. After all, I’ve only tried three new authors so far this summer, […]
Mooching
I got all caught up today at the Book Mooch site. It’s a site where you can trade old books you’ve read for new ones you want. Or new ones you’ve read for old ones you haven’t. Or something like that. I collected up a bunch of books that have been laying around here. Duplicate […]
I finished reading Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Door just a few minutes ago. She had me going until the second to the last sentence. I had no idea who the murderer was. I was totally stumped. It was great! I loved it. Quite fun. I’ll have to see if there are more of her books […]
Winding the Skeins
I haven’t worked on Winding the Skeins for almost a year. What with all the frustration with the skin color on her hand, I just didn’t feel like it. She’s been starting to call to me again, finally, and so when I finished Stepsisters I picked her up. Sometime between July and now […]
Liz gave us a link this morning to the IMBA’s 100 favorite mysteries of the 20th century. It’s fun reading through the list. There are a lot of old favorites there, some I didn’t remember reading until I saw them on the list. I printed it out. The list’ll be a great thing to take […]
I know. Most of the time when I find bugs in the garden I certainly don’t find it exciting. At least not in a pleasurable way. But when I found this baby praying mantis playing on my cucumber yesterday morning, I was ecstatic. He’s so cute. I’ve never seen one so small before. I hope […]